Word: schiller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later he actually wanted to be an actor, but failed; from play-acting he turned to playwriting. He read widely and weirdly; like Friedrich Schiller's heroes, he considered himself a rebel; like Kierkegaard, a pessimystic; like Darwin, a scientist; like Goethe's Faust, he turned to black magic (which he practiced in his attic). When he was crossed, he would roam the woods lashing at branches and hacking down young trees; sometimes he would climb a tree and yell defiance at the universe...
...architecture," he explained, "you haven't got." He wasn't far from wrong. And if Lamont Library is one of the extremes of Harvard's mongrel collection, the Germanic Museum certainly qualifies for the other. The red-roofed building, adorned with Teutonic eagles and lions and a quotation from Schiller, sits on the corner of Kirkland Street and Divinity Avenue like a misplaced Valkyrie grown slightly stout...
...Schiller, as a guest of the Psychology Lab, had been testing learning in fish, and working with Professor Skinner on conditioning. He had arrived at Harvard in the first week of April, and had slightly over a month to go before his leave of absence from Yorkes expired...
Joseph Dodge of the Appalachian Club, who led the rescue crew in its risky task, said it was Schiller's first visit to Tuckerman's Ravine, and that he was not a proficient skier...
Dodge said Schiller had stopped skiing about 75 feet from the lip of the headwall and then had slipped gradually until he was carried over the edge into a torrent of water that coursed under the snow cover...